“Smokers should know that the benefits of stopping smoking dramatically outweigh any concerns of events associated with taking a smoking cessation drug. There is currently no reasonable argument that smoking cessation drugs are associated with important harms,” said Edward J. Mills, PhD, of Stanford University and the Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa.

There are short-term effects of nicotine replacement, such as heart palpitations and a rapid pulse. These symptoms resolve themselves over time, experts say.

Kids' Movies Stigmatize Obesity, Glamorize Unhealthy Eating

Researchers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studied movies such as Cars, Wall-E, Shrek 3 and more. They broke the movie down into 10-minute parts to determine how they portrayed nutrition, exercise and weight.

“When we began the study, we thought we’d find that many movies contained messages about unhealthy eating,” said study author Eliana Perrin, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at the UNC School of Medicine, “but we were surprised to find all the messages stigmatizing obesity.”

Media Coverage of Traumatic Events Takes Toll

Researchers from University of California, Irvine surveyed more than 4,000 adults in Boston, New York City and across the country two to four weeks after the Boston Marathon bombing, gathering information about stress symptoms, hours engaged with media coverage of the event, degree of exposure to the tragedy, and direct or indirect exposure to the September 11 attacks, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, and Superstorm Sandy.

The results showed people who were exposed to at least six hours of media coverage daily during the week of the bombings were nine times more likely to have higher stress levels than those who spent less than one hour watching media coverage.

Rheumatologist Shortage Looms

Most of them are located in large metro areas, leaving people who live in rural areas with either long travel times to doctors or no doctor at all, according to a survey published in Arthritis & Rheumatism.

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